The Little Drummer Boy (The Little Drummer Boy) (1968)

6.1	Rating (42 ratings)
7	IMDB rating

Add to favorites

Edit page

Buy at Amazon

Directed by

Arthur Rankin Jr.

Jules Bass

Starring

José Ferrer
Ben Haramed

Paul Frees
Aaron's Father, the Magi

June Foray
Aaron's Mother

Ted Eccles
Aaron

Greer Garson
Our Story Teller

Written by

Romeo Muller
(written by)

Lists

29 votes

Favorite Christmas movies (22 items)
list by JPHOLT

Published 11 years, 5 months ago

4 comments

23 votes

Holt Movie Collection (1692 items)
list by JPHOLT

Published 11 years, 9 months ago

6 comments

18 votes

The Best of Christmas - A Movie Catalog (63 items)
list by Victorian Fantasy

Published 8 years, 4 months ago

2 comments

16 votes

Christmas TV Favorites From Childhood (23 items)
list by Ricky49er

Published 10 years, 4 months ago

3 comments

9 votes

Collection: From Novel to Film (780 items)
list by becca85

Published 6 years, 10 months ago

View all The Little Drummer Boy lists (5 more)

Pictures

1 vote

View all The Little Drummer Boy pictures (1 more)

Reviews

A nice christmas gem

17 years, 3 months ago at Jan 19 12:37

Prelude

1 vote

Following in the puppet/stop-motion animation of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer comes this story set in Palestine during the birth of Christ, and deals with crooks, child exploitation, and ends at the stable in Bethlehem. For kids, it's a bit hard to watch and understand, but it's worth a watch during the holidays mostly because of the main song, which I believe is the version sung by the Vienna ... read more

View all The Little Drummer Boy reviews

Release date: 19 December 1968
UPC: 074645861197

Tags: Christmas (5), Animation (4), Puppets (3), 1968 (3), Family (2), Kids (2), 1960s (2), Short (2), Middle East (1), TV Short (1), Holiday Special (1), {animated 09} (1), Christmas Special (1), Drama (1), Musical (1), Animated (1), Christian (1), Fantasy (1)

My tags:

Add tags

Update feed

rewster posted a image 4 months, 2 weeks ago

rewster rated this 5/10 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Kandi voted for an image 2 years, 3 months ago

SA-512 posted a image 2 years, 3 months ago

PvtCaboose91 added this to a list 2 years, 4 months ago

Christmastime Viewings: 2021 (34 movies items)

"First Viewing Plot: An orphan drummer boy who hated humanity finds his life changed forever when he meets three wise men on route to Bethlehem. So this was... fine, I guess. I figured I should squeeze in a Rankin/Bass classic for all of my December marathons, and I needed something respectable to ensure the abominable Black Christmas wasn't going to close out the list. Sufficiently charming and tight but undeniably dated, Little Drummer Boy never really grabbed my full attention, but I did app"

PvtCaboose91 rated this 6/10 2 years, 4 months ago

Royally Frizzled rated this 2/10 5 years, 2 months ago

Gdog29 added this to have watched list 5 years, 3 months ago

psychofaerie added this to have watched list 5 years, 4 months ago

brofiend rated this 10/10 6 years, 3 months ago

lalabellexoxo added this to a list 6 years, 5 months ago

My Favorite Christmas Season Movies (30 movies items)

Ghosthack rated this 6/10 6 years, 5 months ago

becca85 added this to a list 6 years, 10 months ago

Collection: From Novel to Film (780 movies items)

"TITLE OF WRITTEN WORK: Carol of the DrumPUBLISHED FORMAT: lyricsAUTHOR/CREATOR: Katherine DavisORIGINAL PUBLICATION YEAR: 1941HAVE I READ: YesNOTES: N/A"

becca85 added this to a list 7 years, 4 months ago

Collection: Complete I - N (524 movies items)

becca85 added this to a list 7 years, 4 months ago

Collection: Christmas Movies (196 movies items)

andrewsld added this to have watched list 7 years, 10 months ago

kck added this to have watched list 8 years ago